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The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature /

The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material sign that marked the rupture between themselves and classical antiquity. In the first full-length bo...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hui, Andrew, 1980- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Verbal arts--studies in poetics.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material sign that marked the rupture between themselves and classical antiquity. In the first full-length book to document this cultural phenomenon, Andrew Hui explains how the invention of the ruin propelled poets into creating works that were self-aware of their absorption of the past as well as their own survival in the future.
Description:Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 2009.
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (296 pages): illustrations (some color).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780823273386
Accès:Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.